POLOKWANE – STROOP is an independent documentary feature film on the rhino poaching crisis, which the world needs to see. This groundbreaking film will be screening in Polokwane this afternoon.
The documentary has won one award after the other, but this is not what Susan Scott and Bonné de Bod said they wanted when they started on the journey.
“I was aware of the problem but never really understood what it was all about and thought that it would be something that I could do in a short period of time, never realising that it would take several years to complete,” Bonné told Review.
The documentary will be screening twice at Mitchell house, with the first show at 14:00, aimed at learners and the evening show at 17:30 will be aimed at the rest of the community.
The two hour film has been making an tremendous impact around the world and director, Susan Scott, told Review that one thing that stood out for her is that wherever the film was shown, people see the problem of rhino poaching as their own.
“These people say that the problem does not belong to South Africa only, but to the world and once they are gone they are gone for good,” Scott says.
STROOP – Journey into the rhino horn war, has won the coveted Best Documentary award at the prestigious San Diego International Film Festival. Hollywood’s Mudbound producer, Kyle Tekiela, presented the award to filmmakers Bonné de Bod and Susan Scott saying, “documentaries tell stories that bring big issues to light and the jury felt this was one of the biggest of them all, that poignantly conveys the struggle the world’s rhinos are having to remain alive for the next decade.”
Tickets for the screening are R70 and will be available at Webticket and there are only 60 seats per seating available. All money raised through the project and showing will be placed back into the fight against rhino poaching.
